Here’s my comments on Zeldman’s excellent post ‘State of the Web’ http://www.zeldman.com/2011/12/29/state-of-the-web-of-apps-devices-and-breakpoints/ This is a very different time to that of the browser wars, and we need to be careful that we don’t apply lessons learned then to the situation we are now in. The number of and variety of devices and viewports which need [...]
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Comment on State of the Web
Posted in uncategorized on 30 December 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What I Want From a Smartphone
Posted in uncategorized on 30 December 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a comment I wrote to a blog post “2011 was a terrible year for tech” http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/12/the_year_s_worst_tech_trend_complexity_.html I would like to see more advances in consumer post-pc devices. To be post-pc, I want to do everything as a consumer on one device. If it’s one device, then it’s going to have to be a smartphone, [...]
User Experience Research and Design
Posted in uncategorized on 18 November 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am now providing user experience research and design services through www.navopia.co.uk. Take a look at the site and let me know what you think. It’s going to be an agile development.
Rail Ticket Machines Are Confusing
Posted in uncategorized on 21 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m glad it’s not just me who finds rail ticket machines confusing. According to a BBC report, some people prefer to queue for a real person rather than use the machines. Well, that is always going to happen. But I find them difficult to use and frustrating when I’m in a rush. I just want [...]
Farewell Left-Hand Navigation
Posted in information architecture, uncategorized, tagged bbc new redesign, information architecture, keith doyle on 10 July 2010 | 1 Comment »
BBC News is soon, amongst other things, to abandon left-hand navigation. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2010/07/bbc_news_website_redesign.html I’m really interested in the demise of left-hand navigation. When it was originally introduced, it was pretty difficult for people to get around websites. We didn’t have JavaScript and page includes and content management systems. This meant that to do anything sophisticated, each [...]
BarCamp Bradford #bcbradford
Posted in uncategorized on 18 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
was fantastic – i will be writing some posts about it soon – checkin again in early December to read!
How Personality Can Improve User Experience
Posted in uncategorized on 20 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dean Vipond gave an entertaining and interesting talk at Future of Web Design, Leeds last Wednesday. He was looking at ways in which a website can have personality and how that helps to make the user feel engaged. Perhaps the ****ing amazon example he gave would require some thought, but I did notice one myself [...]
SEO for a new site
Posted in uncategorized, tagged seo on 17 December 2008 | 2 Comments »
A new site was created and linked to on Sunday. Today is Wednesday and it’s still not appeared on Google. I wonder if adding a link to Lancaster Woodcraft Folk will kick Google into action?
